April 14, 2025

Labor’s solar battery con – won’t help most Aussies (off-grid, rooftop solar)

The truth of Labor’s solar battery con is that it only affects less than 10% of Australian households and is…

April 3, 2025

What Trump’s tariffs mean for the cost of consumer tech in Australia

Trump’s tariffs, a unilateral 10% cost impost on all Australia imports (our exports), will only affect Australian-made exports to the…

Consumer Advice

April 2, 2025

NBN FTTN users – no responsibility for speed or reliability (consumer advice)

NBN FTTN (Fibre to the Node) no longer has government-imposed minimum speed or reliability guarantees. Time to go to FTTP…

Phones

April 1, 2025

Apple AI delayed until the coming year, even later (Smartphones)

Apple AI has been officially delayed until at least 2026, with all likelihood that it won’t fully roll out until…

Consumer Advice

April 1, 2025

DarkBERT is the most malicious dark web AI. It’s coming after you (consumer advice)

DarkBERT is a dark web AI chatbot that is now the super evil, most malicious tool used by cybercriminals to…

Consumer Advice

March 31, 2025

AI companion apps have a very dark side (Consumer advice)

AI Companion apps are the new lawless data-harvesting apps. They can have a hugely distressing dark side for emotionally dependent…

Shack News Highlights – 17 April 2007

16 Apr, 2007

Shack news highlights for this week include testing the cognitive skills of orang-utans, China in the digital age, incorrect use of Craigslist, and CD sales – are they up or down?.

ABOUT NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Get the weekly insight into what’s happening in the technology and gaming industry. Listen to brief snippets of interesting news that will give you a quick rundown for the week. Updated every Tuesday.

Listen to our news highlights for this week by clicking on PLAY. Quick and informative our quick grabs news highlights can be found updated each Tuesday.

Brought to you by CyberShack.com.au